Spurs done making moves?

LAS VEGAS — In an interview with NBATV from Summer League earlier this week, Spurs coach Gregg Popovich was asked what kind of players the team might still be looking to add to the roster.

His answer: “None.”

The Spurs already have 14 players under contract for next season, one less than the league maximum, though there is some wiggle room there with DeJuan Blair’s non-guaranteed deal.

It doesn’t take a math major to infer that, after re-signing Tim Duncan, Boris Diaw, Danny Green and Patty Mills plus adding French import Nando de Colo, general manager R.C. Buford’s work here is pretty much done.

“We’re pretty loaded up right now,” Popovich said.

When it comes to the possibility of any team making any moves, it’s unwise to say never. Still, it appears the Spurs are content to head into training camp with largely the same roster as last season.

Depending on your perspective, half empty or half full, that’s the same roster that tied Chicago for the best record in the NBA, or the same roster that Oklahoma City backdoor swept out of the Western Conference finals.

In a separate interview with reporters earlier this week in Vegas, Popovich said he is banking on continued development from Green, Diaw and second-year small forward Kawhi Leonard to help the Spurs remain competitive against a changing Western Conference landscape.

“We had a very good year, went a pretty long ways,” Popovich said. “We would have liked to have gone further, but we like to keep that group together. Boris just arrived. It was basically Danny’s first year, Kawhi’s first year. I think we can get better. We’re going to stick with the group and see how it goes.”

Translation: Don’t expect the Spurs to change for change’s sake this summer.

Also worth remembering however, is that just because the Spurs start a season with much the same group doesn’t mean they have to end the season that way. Proof positive came last season, when the Spurs radically remade their supporting cast on and around the trade deadline, bringing in Diaw, Mills and Stephen Jackson.

ADDENDUM: Spurs.com has a nice link to the NBATV interview with Popovich, and another with Buford, here.